Comprehensive study of Asian international relations during the 1920s. It traces the evolution & ultimate breakdown of the postwar structure of regional stability (the Washington Conference system) as the Soviet Union, Japan, & China one after another challenged it. Economically, the book shows how, under American initiative, the region became steadily incorporated into the global order in which the powers would deepen their interdependence, & how that development was undermined, thus setting the stage for the tumultuous 1930s. History of American foreign relations, 1920s.